Commerce, Alberta
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|other_name = Coalgate (1912–1913)
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|settlement_type = Former village
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|subdivision_name1 = Alberta
|subdivision_type2 = Region
|subdivision_name2 = Southern Alberta
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|subdivision_name4 = Lethbridge County
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|established_date = 1912
|established_title2 = Incorporated (village)
|established_date2 = July 9, 1912
|established_title3 = Name change
|established_date3 = December 17, 1913
|established_title4 = Dissolved
|established_date4 = May 13, 1926
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Commerce is a former village in southern Alberta, Canada within Lethbridge County. It was located within township 9, range 22, west of the fourth meridian,{{cite book | publisher=Dominion Bureau of Statistics | title=Census of Canada, 1921 | year=1921}} northwest of the City of Lethbridge between the Village of Nobleford and the Town of Picture Butte. It was known as the Village of Coalgate from 1912 to 1913.
History
The community was founded in 1912 as a residential area for the Chinook coal mine northwest of Lethbridge.{{cite web | url=https://www.lethcounty.ca/municipal/lethbridge/lethbridge-website.nsf/AllDoc/F2454C880C6EDFDA8725785B008043C1/$File/COL%20Newsletter%20Spring%202011.pdf | title=County Connection – County History Corner | publisher=County of Lethbridge | page=12 | date=Spring 2011 | accessdate=2011-07-24 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120316224009/https://www.lethcounty.ca/municipal/lethbridge/lethbridge-website.nsf/AllDoc/F2454C880C6EDFDA8725785B008043C1/$File/COL%20Newsletter%20Spring%202011.pdf | archive-date=2012-03-16 | url-status=dead }} It was incorporated as the Village of Coalgate on July 9, 1912. The village was renamed to Commerce on December 17, 1913 to reflect the name of its post office. Its population in 1913 was 294.{{cite web | url=http://www.municipalaffairs.alberta.ca/documents/ms/population1913.pdf | title=Population Data 1913 | publisher=Alberta Municipal Affairs | year=1913 | accessdate=2011-07-24}}
The Chinook coal mine closed on January 25, 1924, and its population declined to an estimated 100 in 1924{{cite web | url=http://www.municipalaffairs.alberta.ca/documents/ms/population1924.pdf | title=Population Data 1924 | publisher=Alberta Municipal Affairs | year=1924 | accessdate=2011-07-24}} and an estimated 50 in 1925.{{cite web | url=http://www.municipalaffairs.alberta.ca/documents/ms/population1925.pdf | title=Population Data 1925 | publisher=Alberta Municipal Affairs | year=1925 | accessdate=2011-07-24}} The village subsequently dissolved on May 13, 1926.{{cite web | url=http://ourfutureourpast.ca/law/page.aspx?id=3086955 | title=The Alberta Gazette, 1926 (Volume 22) – Disorganization of the Village of Commerce | publisher=Government of Alberta | page=348 | accessdate=October 11, 2015 }}{{Dead link|date=July 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
Demographics
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| source = Statistics Canada{{cite book | url=https://publications.gc.ca/collections/collection_2017/statcan/CS92-539-1961.pdf | title=1961 Census of Canada | series=Series 1.1: Historical, 1901–1961 | volume=I: Population | publisher=Dominion Bureau of Statistics | location=Ottawa | chapter=Table 6: Population by census subdivisions, 1901–1961 | date=March 8, 1963 | accessdate=August 11, 2022}}
|1916|212
|1921|360
|1926|55
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